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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

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
Happiness
Exotic
Celestial
Birth

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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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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It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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A progeny of learning.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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There is no trusting appearances.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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