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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, p.295, London : [s.n.]
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, p.295, London : [s.n.]

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