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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. - Daniel Defoe

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. - Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. - Daniel Defoe

All men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. - Daniel Defoe

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. - Daniel Defoe

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. - Daniel Defoe

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

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. - Daniel Defoe

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. - Daniel Defoe

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. - Daniel Defoe

Pride the first peer and president of hell. - Daniel Defoe

He that is rich is wise. - Daniel Defoe

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