“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”

—  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals

Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)

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Irish-British politician, playwright and writer 1751–1816

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