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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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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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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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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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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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