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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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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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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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 fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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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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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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There is no trusting appearances.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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