I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people they go commonly together.
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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
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They have consciences that will stretch.
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Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
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