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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

Burton, Sir Richard on affliction
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."

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"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."

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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Burton, Sir Richard on travel
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