Though They [philosophers] Write Contemptu Gloriae, Yet As Hieron Observes, They Will Put Their Names To Their Books.

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Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriae, yet as Hieron
observes, they will put their names to their books.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
-- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14

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