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There is no trusting appearances.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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