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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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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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