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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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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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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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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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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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