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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Learning

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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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There is no trusting appearances.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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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.
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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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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.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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