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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
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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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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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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