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• Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3...
• No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3...
• They do not live but linger. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10...
• Can build castles in the air. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3...
• Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio daemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3...
• All our geese are swans. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14...
• Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10...
• Make a virtue of necessity. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect.
  3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1...
• The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....