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Daniel Defoe Quotes: Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
         

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.


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The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.



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