I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
- Daniel Defoe
Country, Civilized, Deny, Considering
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
- Daniel Defoe
Brainy, Never, Appear, Polished
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
- Daniel Defoe
Sin, Devil, Cheat, Tis
All men would be tyrants if they could.
- Daniel Defoe
Men, Could, Would, Tyrants
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Daniel Defoe
Nature, Left, Would, Tyrants
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
- Daniel Defoe
Root, Worst, Covetousness, Snare
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
- Daniel Defoe
Leadership, Better, Head, Sheep
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- Daniel Defoe
Always, Violent, Offending, Party
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
- Daniel Defoe
Fate, Die, Suspend, Early
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
- Daniel Defoe
Pride, Hell, First, Peer
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
- Daniel Defoe
Will, Maintain, Englishman, Dutch
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- Daniel Defoe
Thankful, Spring, Appeared, Thankfulness
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
- Daniel Defoe
Trouble, Your, Troubled
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
- Daniel Defoe
Door, Always, Vice, Inclination
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
- Daniel Defoe
Man, Honest, Makes, Knave
He that is rich is wise.
- Daniel Defoe
Rich, He, Wise
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