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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
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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