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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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A progeny of learning.
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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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