As Much Valour Is To Be Found In Feasting As In Fighting, And Some Of Our City Captains And Carpet Knights Will Make This Good, And Prove It.

As Much Valour Is To Be Found In Feasting As In Fighting, And Some Of Our City Captains And Carpet Knights Will Make This Good, And Prove It.

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As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some
of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove
it.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
-- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2

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