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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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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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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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There is no trusting appearances.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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