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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
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Celestial
Birth
Happiness

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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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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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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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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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