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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
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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There is no trusting appearances.
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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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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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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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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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
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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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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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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
