The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author Daniel Defoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – REVISITS ISLAND That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life.
Anyone would think that after thirty-five years’ affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might have allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy…
