More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
  2. 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…
  3. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
  4. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
  5. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
  6. Be just before you're generous.
  7. A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.
  8. There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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