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Tag Archives: English Dramatist

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

“It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape”. –Mary Shelley