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• Such protection as vultures give to lambs. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- Pizarro, Act ii, Sc.
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• A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,--by deeds, not years.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- Pizarro, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• He is the very pine-apple of politeness! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc.
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• The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas, Sheridaniana...
• 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...
• 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...
• A progeny of learning. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2