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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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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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I leave my character behind me.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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