Daniel Defoe Quotes About Giving

• I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

  Daniel Defoe

  Giving, Accounts, Ought

  Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.167, Book Jungle

• No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

  Daniel Defoe

  Friday, Giving, Laughing

  Daniel Defoe (1810). “The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.333

• No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.

  Daniel Defoe

  Character, Dark, Men

  Daniel Defoe (2011). “Moll Flanders”, p.94, OUP Oxford

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