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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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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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