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American actor (1895-1962)
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Robert George Burton was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 100 films and television programs, and was best known for playing Tom Gipson in the 1956 film The Brass Legend.
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“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”
“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”
“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
“What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?”
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Robert George Burton (August 13, 1895 – September 29, 1962) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 100 films and television programs, and was best known for playing Tom Gipson in the 1956 film The Brass Legend.
Burton died on September 29, 1962 in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 67.
