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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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