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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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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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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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