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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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