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bookishjenx 's review for:
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Loved this a lot. Inkling Defoe might be gay. Weirdly relatable.
Favourite quotes:
“How incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to the reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz. that they are not asham’d to sin, and yet are asham’d to repent; not asham’d of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are asham’d of the returning, which only can make them be esteem’s wise men.”
“But how just has it been, and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse... the truly solitary life I reflected on in an island of meer desolation should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compar’d it with the life which I then led, in which had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.”
“Let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something to comfort our selves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the accounts.”
“In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use”
Favourite quotes:
“How incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to the reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz. that they are not asham’d to sin, and yet are asham’d to repent; not asham’d of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are asham’d of the returning, which only can make them be esteem’s wise men.”
“But how just has it been, and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse... the truly solitary life I reflected on in an island of meer desolation should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compar’d it with the life which I then led, in which had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.”
“Let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something to comfort our selves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the accounts.”
“In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use”