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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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 number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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