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• Such protection as vultures give to lambs. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- Pizarro, Act ii, Sc.
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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.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 3...
• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act iii, Sc.
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• An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act v, Sc. 1...
• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• It was an amiable weakness. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act v, Sc.
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