Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyrannys the worst.
Daniel Defoe
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
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