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I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.


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BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON