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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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Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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There is no trusting appearances.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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I leave my character behind me.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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