
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
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan