That heterogeneous thing, an Englishman. - Daniel Defoe

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That heterogeneous thing, an Englishman.

Daniel Defoe

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About Daniel Defoe

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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Jonathan Swift Hilaire Belloc Samuel Johnson Benjamin Franklin Euripides

Additional quotes by Daniel Defoe

Reason, it is true, is D<small>ICTATOR</small> in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

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