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Quotation from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

“I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.”

Daniel Defoe (spoken by Crusoe)

Robinson Crusoe, Opening (1719)

Portrait of Daniel Defoe

Names birth, place, and family origin.

Citation: "I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull." — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Opening (1719). (id robinson-crusoe-q1)

Portrait: Robinson Crusoe 1719 1st edition, Unknown author, Public domain.

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