All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy. - Robert Burton

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All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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About Robert Burton

Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English writer and scholar at Oxford University (at Christ Church), known chiefly for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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Pen Names: Democritus junior
Alternative Names: Democritus Junior
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Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.
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