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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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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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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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.
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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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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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