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• 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...
• 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...
• You 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc. 1...
• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• He is the very pine-apple of politeness! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, 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...
• 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...
• 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...