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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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.
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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