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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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