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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. View quote
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My valour is certainly going! View quote
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! View quote
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. View quote
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. View quote
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. View quote
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There's only one truth about war: people die. View quote
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. View quote
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In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. View quote
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Our memories are independent of our wills. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Good reading makes for damn hard writing. View quote
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. View quote
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. View quote
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There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation. View quote
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There is no trusting appearances. View quote
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A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,by deeds, not years. View quote
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. View quote
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Easy writings curse is hard reading. View quote
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I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. View quote
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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. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
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. View quote
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Justice august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men where the mind rises where the heart expands where the countenance is ever placid and benign where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate to hear their cry and to help them to rescue and relieve to succor and save majestic, from its mercy venerable, from its Lutility uplifted, without pride firm without obduracy beneficent in each preference lovely, though in her frown. View quote
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes such eyes so innocently wild so bashfully irresolute Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love Then, Jack, her cheeks her cheeks, Jack so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes Then, Jack, her lips O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness Then, Jack, her neck O, Jack, Jack. View quote
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He stated it distinctly...as what he conceived was the unalterable resolution of ministers, that no proposal for peace should be entertained, while a single French soldier had a footing on British ground. [This sentiment was universally applauded.]. View quote
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