Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward FitzGerald Quotes
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
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| Birth: | 31st March, 1809 |
| Death: | 14th June, 1883 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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Edward Marlborough FitzGerald was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. He was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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