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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
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Learning
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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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I leave my character behind me.
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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Never say more than is necessary.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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