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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!
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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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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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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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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