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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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Independent
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I leave my character behind me.
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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain 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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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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