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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Memory
Memories
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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A progeny of learning.
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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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