Quote#Books & Reading
You write with ease, to show your breeding
Quote byRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1751–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ‘Clio’s Protest’. T. Moore ‘Life of Sheridan’ (1825) 1, 55.
English (original)
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing’s vile hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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