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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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