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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
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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A progeny of learning.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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