"The devil is the author of confusion."

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

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"They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud."

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"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

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"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

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"What can't be cured must be endured."

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"England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women."

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"A mere scholar, a mere ass."

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"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."

Burton, Robert on Smoking
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"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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"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

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"The fear of death is worse than death."

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