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Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)


English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
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Daniel Defoe
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Defoe quotes
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.
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