"Why then should women be denied the benefits……" — Daniel Defoe
"Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities."
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63 Quotes by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe has 63 quotes on this site.
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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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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More Additions Quotes
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars…
— Benjamin Franklin
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had…
— John Joseph Griffin
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and…
— Joseph Black
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as…
— William Shakespeare
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage…
— Charles Darwin
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
— Umberto Eco
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just…
— Willy Ley
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The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate…
— Dave Gibbons
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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United…
— Ambrose Bierce
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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are…
— Daniel Yergin
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