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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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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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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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