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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
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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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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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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