Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Robert Burton
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More Quotes By Robert Burton
  1. A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

  2. No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man, and human kind.

  3. They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

  4. If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

  5. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

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