I May Not Here Omit Those Two Main Plagues And Common Dotages Of Human Kind, Wine And Women, Which Have Infatuated And Besotted Myriads Of People

I May Not Here Omit Those Two Main Plagues And Common Dotages Of Human Kind, Wine And Women, Which Have Infatuated And Besotted Myriads Of People

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I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human
kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of
people; they go commonly together.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
-- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 13

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