Brinsley Sheridan

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“The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.... There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I’m sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed—and I thought it my duty to do so.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)