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Men Quotes by Daniel Defoe
- Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
- The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
- All men would be tyrants if they could.
- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and…
- It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
- Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the…
- For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and…
- What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...
- Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.
- I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to…
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