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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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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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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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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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