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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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