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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
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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There is no trusting appearances.
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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