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George Villiers (1628 – 1687)


English dramatist, poet, politician, wit and rake.
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George Villiers
The world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.
Villiers quotes
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus, Montaigne, Seneca's Tragedies, Horace, Juvenal, Claudian, Pliny, Plutarch's lives, and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.
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