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James Albery
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James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist.
Quotes
He frisked beneath the moon,He slept beneath the sun;He led a life of going-to-do,And died with nothing done.
Epitaph for himself, as quoted in The Theatre (November, 1894), p. 274. There are several variations:
He walked beneath the moon,He slept beneath the sun,He lived a life of going to do,And died with nothing done.
Francis Wilson, Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player (1907), p. 260
He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun;He lived a life of going-to-do, And died with nothing done.
W. Gurney Benham, Putnam's Complete Book of Quotations (1907), p. 197
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Category:1838 births
Category:1889 deaths
Category:Playwrights from England
Category:People from London