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Date: 1719
I struggled with the Power of my Imagination, reason'd myself out of it, as I believe People may always do in like Cases, if they will; and, in a Word, I conquer'd it
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I thought he was not a Monarch only, but a great Conqueror; for that he that has got a Victory over his own exorbitant Desires, and has the absolute Dominion over himself, whose Reason entirely governs his Will, is certainly greater than he that conquers a City"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
