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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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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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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 wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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