I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.
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When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
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| Birth: | 1636 |
| Death: | 10th May, 1692 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Playwright, Poet |
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Sir George Etherege was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. He was an English playwright and poet. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would if She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676. He served as apprentice to a lawyer and later studied law at Clement's Inn, London, one of the Inns of Chancery. He wrote several books include: She Would If She Could, The Poems of Sir George Etherege, and Letters of Sir George Etherege.
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