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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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A progeny of learning.
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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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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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