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> [Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/mr-william-shakespeare-was-born-at-stratford-upon-avon-in-the-county/)

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## More by John Aubrey

> [Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/arise-evans-had-a-fungous-nose-and-said-it-was-revealed-to-him-that/)

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> [Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/mr-william-shakespeare-was-born-at-stratford-upon-avon-in-the-county/)

[John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-aubrey/)

> [How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/how-these-curiosities-would-be-quite-forgot-did-not-such-idle/)

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> [ He \[William Harvey\] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/he-william-harvey-bid-me-to-goe-to-the-fountain-head-and-read/)

[John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-aubrey/)

> [There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/there-is-to-some-men-a-great-lechery-in-lying-and-imposing-on-the/)

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> [I have been in danger of being drowned twice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/i-have-been-in-danger-of-being-drowned-twice/)

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> [Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/sir-walter-being-strangely-surprised-and-put-out-of-his-countenance/)

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> [This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/this-earle-of-oxford-making-of-his-low-obeisance-to-queen-elizabeth/)

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> [About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/about-thomas-hobbes-he-was-40-years-old-before-he-looked-on-geometry/)

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> [Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/box-about-twill-come-to-my-father-anon/)

[John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-aubrey/)

> [ He \[William Harvey\] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/he-william-harvey-did-not-care-for-chymistrey-and-was-wont-to-speake/)

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> [The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/the-silver-thames-takes-some-part-of-this-county-in-its-journey-to/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/the-astrologers-and-historians-write-that-the-ascendant-as-of-oxford/)

[John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-aubrey/)

> [How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/how-these-curiosities-would-be-quite-forgott-did-not-such-idle/)

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> [“As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-aubrey/as-he-lay-expiring-in-the-agony-of-death-the-standers-by-could-hear/)

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