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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.
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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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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