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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 heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherĀ“s treachery.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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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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I leave my character behind me.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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