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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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I leave my character behind me.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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