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• As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2...
• What can't be cured must be endured. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3...
• All places are distant from heaven alike. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 4...
• All our geese are swans. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14...
• They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect.
  4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3...
• The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscriptio
  "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war....
• Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 6...