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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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I leave my character behind me.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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