Sheridan

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    He is the very pineapple of politeness!
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    —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)