"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.“
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue."
-Sadhu Vaswani
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