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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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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.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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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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