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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
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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A progeny of learning.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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