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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
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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A progeny of learning.
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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