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• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc.
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• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
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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.
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• 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...
• 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...
• 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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