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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
• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc. 3...
• Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act i, Sc. 2...
• I leave my character behind me. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act ii, Sc.
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• No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,--our retrospection will be all to the future.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• 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...