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Be just before you are generous.

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: October 30th, 1751

Died: July 7th, 1816

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