Famous quotes containing the words burton and/or mix:
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)