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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
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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I leave my character behind me.
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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