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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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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.
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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