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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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
Never
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Love
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Pity
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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