'Let me not live,' saith Aretine's Antonia, 'if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.'
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Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.
Robert Burton
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton
John. Mayor, in the first book of his 'History of Scotland,' contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain.... And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
Robert Burton
The rich are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
Robert Burton
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