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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.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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