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    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)

    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)

    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)