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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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