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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Marriage
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Fathers
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Swearing
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Conscience
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Writers and Writing
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Memory
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Manners
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Modesty
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Pity
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Failure
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Sincerity
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Gossip
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Debt
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun