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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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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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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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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 man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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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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