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Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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