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«One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.»
«All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.»
«Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.»
«As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.»
Author: Daniel Defoe
«They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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and the like, antiquities, family values, houses, noblemen, Owen, prince, princes, the like, Tudor
«We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.»
Author: Daniel Defoe
«All men would be tyrants if they could.»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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tyrants
«Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.»
«Necessity makes an honest man a knave»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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knave
«Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could»
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