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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"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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"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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"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."

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"Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest."

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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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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature."
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"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
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"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
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"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
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"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
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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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"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."
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"You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading."
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