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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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A progeny of learning.
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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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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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