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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
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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 fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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I leave my character behind me.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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