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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A progeny of learning.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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