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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
Playwright
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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