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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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A progeny of learning.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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I leave my character behind me.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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