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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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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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I leave my character behind me.
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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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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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Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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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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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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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. 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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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