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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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