Richard Brinsley

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    “For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    “If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
    Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
    For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
    The sentence of thy early death contain.”
    —Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)

    “Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)