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John Aubrey

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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.


— John Aubrey


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I have been in danger of being drowned twice.


— John Aubrey


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If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.


— John Aubrey


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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.


— John Aubrey


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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.


— John Aubrey


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Only in the 1970s did the full breadth and innovation of his scholarship begin to be more widely appreciated. He set out to compile county histories of both Wiltshire and Surrey although both projects remained unfiniJohn Aubreyd.

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