Daniel Defoe Quotes About Giving
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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.
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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
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I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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