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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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