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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...
• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• 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 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc. 1...
• A progeny of learning. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2
• T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2...
• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc.
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• There 's nothing like being used to a thing. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc.
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