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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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 memories are independent of our wills.
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