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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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I leave my character behind me.
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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