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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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A progeny of learning.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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