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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

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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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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I leave my character behind me.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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