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• As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iii, Sc. 3...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• There 's nothing like being used to a thing. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, 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...
• A progeny of learning. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act i, Sc. 2
• You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act iv, Sc. 2...
• 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...