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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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 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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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