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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
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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 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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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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A progeny of learning.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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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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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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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