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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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Memories
Quite
Illiterate
Clever

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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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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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 silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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I leave my character behind me.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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