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Quotes by Daniel Defoe ---To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear. Source: Robinson Crusoe ---Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Source: Robinson Crusoe ---As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares. Source: Moll Flanders ---The vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. Source: Moll Flanders ---All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them. Source: Robinson Crusoe ---The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. Source: An Essay upon Projects ---Necessity makes an honest man a knave.Source: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe ? ---In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled. Source: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ---And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, ecclesiastic tyrannys the worst. Source: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe --- The height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances; and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. Source: Robinson Crusoe ? ---Nature has left this tincture in the blood, that all men would be tyrants if they could. Source: The History of the Kentish Petition ? ---Pride, the first peer, and president of Hell.Source: The True-Born Englishman: A Satire Daniel Defoe I. Brief Introduction to the Writer 1. Life Story Defoe is the first important novelist and a versatile writer. He was born in London in 1660. His father was a London butcher. He was sent to one of the best Dissenting academies and received a very good edu