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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes: Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
         

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.


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