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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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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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