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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.
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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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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