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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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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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A progeny of learning.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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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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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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