Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe

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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

Daniel Defoe

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

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Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

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Business neglected is business lost.

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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

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