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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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I leave my character behind me.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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