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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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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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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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I leave my character behind me.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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