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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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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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I leave my character behind me.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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