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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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I leave my character behind me.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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