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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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A progeny of learning.
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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I leave my character behind me.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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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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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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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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