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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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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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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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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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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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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