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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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A progeny of learning.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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