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Robert Burton Quotes

«No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.»
«Idleness is an appendix to nobility»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Idleness | Keywords: appendix, nobility
«He that comes last is commonly best»
«All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: naught
«One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Marriage | Keywords: plague
«Diogenes struck the father when the son swore»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Family | Keywords: Diogenes, struck, swore, the Son
«I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself»
«Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: offenses
«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.»
«What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Life, Nature | Keywords: adorning, cloudless

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