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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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 silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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