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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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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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A progeny of learning.
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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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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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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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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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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