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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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