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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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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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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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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherĀ“s treachery.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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