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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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