- George Granville
(03/09/1666 – 01/29/1735)
English writer
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"Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not."
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"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."
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| "There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'"
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"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him."
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| "I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." |  |
"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."
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| "Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish." |  |
| "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." |  |
"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near."
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| "I'm not confused, I'm just well-mixed." |  |
| "I have the face of an aging choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I." |  |
"The chief incalculable in war is the human will."
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"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?"
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| Died 01/28 | Died 01/29 | Died 01/30 | Death Dates |