More from Daniel Defoe
- Jure divino: a satyre, Introduction, l. 2 (1706).
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.The True-Born Englishman (1701), Pt. I, l. 374.‘Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
A System of Magick (1726).
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
