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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.
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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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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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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