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The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr by Daniel Defoe
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“When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.”
Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer
the Devil always builds a chapel there;
And t’will be found, upon examination,
the latter has the largest congregation."

— Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, 1701”
Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr