All our geese are swans

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, Section 2, member 3, subsection 14..

English (original)

All our geese are swans.

— Robert Burton

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The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

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I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

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All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

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