“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton: Likeness
Robert Burton was English scholar. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Robert Burton:
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“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II