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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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I leave my character behind me.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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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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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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