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• We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked. -- Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
• All places are distant from heaven alike. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 4...
• Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 2...
• See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7...
• All our geese are swans. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14...
• Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastard
  heir worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]....
• What can't be cured must be endured. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3...
• For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
• 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...