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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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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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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no trusting appearances.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
