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Arthur Murphy , also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.

✵ 27. December 1727 – 18. June 1805
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Famous Arthur Murphy Quotes

“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”

Arthur Murphy

The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756).

“Above the vulgar flight of common souls.”

Arthur Murphy

Zenobia (1768), Act v.

“Thus far we run before the wind.”

Arthur Murphy

The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756), Act v. Sc. 1.

“Picked up his crumbs.”

Arthur Murphy

The Upholsterer; or, What News? (1757-58), Act i.

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