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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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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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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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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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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