Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parent… - Daniel Defoe

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Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

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Birth Name: Daniel Foe

Alternative Names: D. Defoe

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It is never too late to be wise.

That heterogeneous thing, an Englishman.

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. - Daniel Defoe

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