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Schriftsteller, wurde 1719 mit "Robinson Crusoe" weltberühmt (England, 1660 - 1731).

Daniel Defoe · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Daniel Defoe wäre heute 365 Jahre, 4 Monate, 1 Tag oder 133.436 Tage alt.

Geboren am 01.01.1660 in Cripplegate
Gestorben am 26.04.1731 in Moorgate
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• His lazy, long, lascivious reign.

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• I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.

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• I smiled to myself at the sight of this money. 'O drug!' said I aloud, 'what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off of the ground; one of those knives is worth all this heap; I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving.' However, upon second thoughts I took it away.

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• In their religion they are so uneven, That each one goes his own by-way to heaven.

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• In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled.

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• It happened 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. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.

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• 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.

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• Law is but a heathen word for power.

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• My island was now peopled, and I thought my self very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection which I frequently made, how like a king I looked.

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• My man Friday.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

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• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

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• Pleasure is a thief to business.

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• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

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• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

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• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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• We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.

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• We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a mere scholar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a mere book-case, a bundle of letters, a head stuffed with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body.

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• When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

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