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• As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc. 3...
• He is the very pine-apple of politeness! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc.
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• My valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc. 3...
• 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...
• There 's nothing like being used to a thing. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc.
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• T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2...
• A progeny of learning. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2
• 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...
• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc.
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