Quote#Friendship
My visits to you may possibly be misunderstood by my friends; but I…
Quote byRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1751–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks to the Prime Minister, Henry Addington (c. 1802), quoted in George Pellow, The Life and Correspondence of The Right Hon. Henry Addington, First Viscount of Sidmouth, Vol. II (1847), p. 105.
English (original)
My visits to you may possibly be misunderstood by my friends; but I hope you know, Mr. Addington, that I have an unpurchasable mind.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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