More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. 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…
  2. Be just before you're generous.
  3. You had no taste when you married me.
  4. There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
  5. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
  6. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule neve…
  7. Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
  8. Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

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