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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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