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• Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,--disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Sheer necessity,--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act i, Sc. 2...
• No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc.
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• The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal-- Not that I ever read them!
  No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper....
• Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc.
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• Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• A progeny of learning. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, 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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• T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2...