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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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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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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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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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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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A progeny of learning.
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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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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