"Necessity makes an honest man a knave." — Daniel Defoe
"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
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63 Quotes by Daniel Defoe
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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord,…
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have…
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As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now,…
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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
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It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's…
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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