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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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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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