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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
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Dublin city
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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I leave my character behind me.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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