“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)

Robert Burton (8 February 1577 - 25 January 1640) was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy

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