There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. … - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

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There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

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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.

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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

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