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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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