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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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A progeny of learning.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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