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I leave my character behind me.
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
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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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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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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.
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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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