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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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 man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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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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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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