"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.“
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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