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Robert Burton

English author and clergyman; b. 1577; d. 1640

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (3 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

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