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Robert Burton (1577 – 1640)


English scholar at Oxford University, whose chief claim to fame is for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
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[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.




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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
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