Daniel Defoe · Skopia

Quotes

6

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

Moll Flanders · 1722

★ 3.7

Political literature

Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood, That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd.

1701

★ 3.6

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change, are virtues made or crimes.

1703

★ 3.6

Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities.

1697

★ 3.5

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Books

2

Robinson Crusoe

1719★ 7.0

Moll Flanders

1722★ 5.9