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Robert Burton Quotes

«We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.»
«They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud»
«Wit without employment is a disease»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Disease | Keywords: employment
«Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: Aesop, fox
«Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing»
«They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: lard
«All places are distant from heaven alike»
«We can say nothing but what hath been said»
«Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Health | Keywords: potion, potions, purse
«That which is a law today is none tomorrow»

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