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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
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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