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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
Progeny
Learning

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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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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.
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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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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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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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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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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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