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A rich man is an honest man, no thanks to him, for he would be a double knave to cheat mankind when he had no need of it. - [Honesty] All good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. - [Avarice] All the good things of this world are no further good than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much of as we can use. - [Possession] And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who! - [Aristocracy] Blood follows blood. - [Blood] Friends are good,--good, if well chosen. - [Associates] 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. - [Commanders] Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. - [Justice] Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. - [Middle Age] Pride, the first peer and president of hell. - [Pride] The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. - [Soul] We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. - [Ancestry] We lov'd the doctrine for the teachers sake. - [Teachers] Wherever God erects, a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination; The latter has the largest congregation. - [Churches] The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. - Character of the late Dr. S. Annesley [Death] What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh. - quoted by Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Nature] 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. - History of the Devil (pt. ii, ch. 10) [Devil] My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes. - Moll Flanders [Books (First Lines)] I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me. - Robinson Crusoe [Books (First Lines)] Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. - The True Born Englishman (pt. I, l. 1) [Churches] Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. - The True-Born Englishman (part I, l. 372) [Ancestry]
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