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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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