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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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A progeny of learning.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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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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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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