John Vanbrugh
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- City of London
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor
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Trending topics shown first"Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her."
"As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em."
"No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so."
"Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife. Use with caution, this is an abridged and bowdlerised text."
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1664
Born
Birth1726
Died
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