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• 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...
• There 's nothing like being used to a thing. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc.
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• 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...
• 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...
• As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc. 3...
• 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...
• An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act v, Sc. 1...
• It was an amiable weakness. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act v, Sc.
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