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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
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I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.
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Rowley:
I believe there is no sentiment he has more faith in as that 'Charity begins at home'.
Sir Oliver Surface:
And his I presume is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Born:
October 30, 1751
Died:
July 7, 1816
(aged 64)
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