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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: October 30th, 1751

Died: July 7th, 1816

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