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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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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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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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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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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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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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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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