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Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!
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Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.

 

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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