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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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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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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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