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Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

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Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, and died on October 19, 1745, was an Irish writer, satirist, and politician, renowned for his satirical works. more

“Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.”

Heart Book Waiting Answers Lord Impossible Trouble Comfort Occasions Cheer Glorify Good Cheer

Author:Daniel Defoe

“All men would be tyrants if they could.”

Ifs Men Would Be Tyrants Unlimited Suffrage Unlimited Power Women Equality Women Right Woman Suffrage Women's Suffrage Suffragists

Author:Daniel Defoe

“In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.”

Trouble Stay Calm

Author:Daniel Defoe

“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”

Evil Poverty Worst Roots Snares Covetousness

Author:Daniel Defoe

“Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.”

Said Helping Father Voice Justice Dear Providence Rejected

Book:The Works of Daniel De Foe: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Daniel De Foe: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings

“As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.”

Men World Humans Self States Done Desire Parent Views Rich Misery Casts Pursue Faster Rising Consistent Plantations Breaking Away

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

“No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.”

Giving Laughing Friday Kill Me

Book:The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

Source: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

“It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.”

Men Happens Feet One Day Naked Boat Print Shore Noon

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

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