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I see you are ever so affronted with me, but upon my life without the least cause. I have never had one cross feel towards you since you left Grewe,1 but I must say whatever is in my mind to say on all subjects, you know, and when you tell me how vexed and grieved you was at not being able to speak that Monday, on account of your making yourself so ill on Sunday, would you have me say drinking to that excess is not an abominable habit? And where I see idletons as Jack Townshend can overcome all your good, and strong resolutions, mustn’t I think that London and its inhabitants and their ways do alter people whether they will or no?
From Rac, Sheridan: A Biography, II, 128–9. Editor’s title.
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Sheridan, E. (1989). The Excessive Drinker. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Sheridan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20441-0_31
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