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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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