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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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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