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“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Life #Flower #Garden
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Failure #Way #Succeed
“Never say more than is necessary.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Inspiration #History #Life Changing Experience
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Clever #Numbers #Judging
“I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Particular #Behinds
“A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Clever #Justice #Judging
“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Miracle #Doe #Littles
“A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Clever #Wine #Men
“The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Men #Quality #Charity
“Easy writing's curst hard reading.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Reading #Writing #Easy
“There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Scandal #Foundation #Tales
“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Memories #Men #Long
“Easy writings curse is hard reading.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Reading #Writing #Easy
“There is no trusting appearances.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Trust #Appearance
“I own the soft impeachment.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Confession
“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

#Party #Giving #People
“There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Years #Names
“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Credit #Fever
“Believe that story false that ought not to be true.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Believe #Stories #Scandal
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Art #Speak #Professors
“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, â€” by deeds, not years...”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Running #Mean #Years
“There 's nothing like being used to a thing.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Used
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Clever #Heart #Passion
“To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Smile #Plant #Jest
“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.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Years #Long #Tree
“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Nice #Use #World
“There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Uncles #Earth #Forget
“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hope #Queens #Scandal
“I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hope #Eye #Saws
“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.”
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Party #Games #Purpose

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