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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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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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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass Drink to the lass I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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