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If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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