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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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A progeny of learning.
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