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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

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
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Pity
Nature
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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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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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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.
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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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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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