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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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A progeny of learning.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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