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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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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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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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