"What a glut of books! Who can read them?"

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Source : Robert Burton (1955). “The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text”

Robert Burton

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.”
“There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.”
“Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.”
“Faith lives in honest doubt.”
“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”
“Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.”
“And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.”

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