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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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A progeny of learning.
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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