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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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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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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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There is no trusting appearances.
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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 it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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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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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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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
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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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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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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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