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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  1. A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
  2. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule neve…
  3. The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
  4. There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
  5. Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
  6. Be just before you're generous.
  7. I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.
  8. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

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Topics in this quote

  • communication
  • clarity
  • interpretation
  • interpreter
  • language
  • translation

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