SIR OLIVER. Odds my Life — I am not sorry that He has run o… - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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SIR OLIVER. Odds my Life — I am not sorry that He has run out of the course a little — for my Part, I hate to see dry Prudence clinging to the green juices of youth — ’tis like ivy round a sapling and spoils the growth of the Tree.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman.

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Alternative Names: Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan

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