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A progeny of learning.
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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Learning
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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan