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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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There is no trusting appearances.
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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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