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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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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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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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