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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Clever
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Licentious
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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