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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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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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