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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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 newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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