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I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world — Salma Hayek
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas. — Adriano Celentano
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody — Baron de Montesquieu
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking — Unknown Author
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I was struck all on a heap. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is the very pineapple of politeness. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The throne we honour is the people's choice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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