Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 91 pages
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“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
“The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.”
“To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.”
“If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.”
“... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.”
“-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...”
“Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.”
“Trust me to return to you."
"I will wait forever.
however long it takes.”
“Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.”
“We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.”
“Did he die well?"
No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.”
“Me sentía como un espantapájaros ante una tempestad. En cualquier momento, el viento podría derribarme y esparcir todas las piezas que formaban mi cuerpo. Me despertaría para darme cuenta de que no quedaba nada de mí, ni rastro de la persona que quería ser.”
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