“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
—
Robert Burton
,
book
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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