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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.
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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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 bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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