Brinsley Sheridan

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“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)