Brinsley Sheridan

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    “There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature—
    The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

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

    “My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)