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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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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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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 silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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