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That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.Robert Burton
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What a glut of books! Who can read them?Robert Burton
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I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower.. I live still a collegiate student..and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world..aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.Robert Burton
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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.Robert Burton