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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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