"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."
-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.“
-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."
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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