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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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 I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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I leave my character behind me.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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