Robert Burton
English author and clergyman; b. 1577; d. 1640
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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