Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 13, 1660 - April 24, 1731
Birthday: September 13
Death: April 24
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
source: Daniel Defoe (1855). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.443
topic: Gentleman, England, Peers, Impudence