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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.
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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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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