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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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