Quotes by Defoe, Daniel




Daniel Defoe.

"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."

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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."

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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."

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"Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer."

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"And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst."

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