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Own Quotes by Daniel Defoe
- Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other…
- This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before…
- I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the…
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