Frases de George Monck

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“Little General Monck
Sat upon a trunk,
Eating a crust of bread;
There fell a hot coal
And burnt in his clothes a hole,
Now little General Monck is dead.”

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— George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6
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“What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.”

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— George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The myth of the free market: the role of the state in a capitalist economy by Mark Anthony Martinez, p. 116 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M97-cI2V080C&pg=PA116&dq=%22What+matters+this+or+that+reason%3F+What+we+want+is+more+of+the+trade+which+the+Dutch+now+have.%22&hl=en&ei=pePHTKXJDoqOjAfo_vFK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22What%20matters%20this%20or%20that%20reason%3F%20What%20we%20want%20is%20more%20of%20the%20trade%20which%20the%20Dutch%20now%20have.%22&f=false