Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.Robert Burton
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton
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.
Robert Burton
Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
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
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
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