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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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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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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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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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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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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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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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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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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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A progeny of learning.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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