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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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 heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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