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“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”

— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II, Section 2, member 2
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About Robert Burton

1577 – 1640

English scholar, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy".

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