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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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