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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. I loved him for himself alone.
  2. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
  3. I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
  4. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
  5. Through all the drama-whether damned or not- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
  6. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
  7. I own the soft impeachment.
  8. You had no taste when you married me.

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  • social norms
  • war
  • alcohol
  • justice

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