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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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There is no trusting appearances.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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