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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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I leave my character behind me.
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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 number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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A progeny of learning.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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