- Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
- Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
- Antiquity and birth are needless here;
- ‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
DANIEL DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed,
Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
DANIEL DEFOE, A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman
The end of satire is reformation.
DANIEL DEFOE, preface, The True-Born Englishman
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
DANIEL DEFOE, A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman
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