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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.

Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621
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Topic
Melancholy
Genre
Philosophical literature
Time
1621
Person
Robert Burton
Provenance
Current citation
Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001.
Original citation
Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621.

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