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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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