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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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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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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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
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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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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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
