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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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