34 ordspråk av Daniel DeFoe
Daniel DeFoe
 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil |
| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil |
| All men would be tyrants if they could. |
| All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. |
| An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch |
| And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. |
| As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. |
| From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. |
| He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters |
| He that is rich is wise |
| I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. |
| In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do. |
| In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled |
| 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 |
| 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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