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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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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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There is no trusting appearances.
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