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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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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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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 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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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