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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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Never say more than is necessary.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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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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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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