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• They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Women wear the breeches.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Rob Peter, and pay Paul.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...