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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Fame
Proud
Deity
Deities
Sovereign
Ambition

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I leave my character behind me.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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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