“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Source: Commonplace book, P. 268
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“O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Last recorded words, as quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
“The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
"Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason"; cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 105.
Variant (modernized spelling): The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcilable foes to truth.