More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.
  2. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
  3. I loved him for himself alone.
  4. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
  5. I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
  6. You had no taste when you married me.
  7. Through all the drama-whether damned or not- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
  8. Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean, And here's to the housew…

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