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Daniel Defoe

English novelist and journalist; b. 1660; d. 1731

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (13 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

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