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• I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me
  I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip....
• Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act i, 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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• No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, 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...
• Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Duenna, Act ii, Sc. 4...
• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc.
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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...