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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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