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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
Clare Boothe Luce
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
W. S. Gilbert
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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
W. S. Gilbert
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
W. S. Gilbert
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
W. S. Gilbert
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
W. S. Gilbert
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
W. S. Gilbert
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I am the very model of a modern major general
W. S. Gilbert
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I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!
W. S. Gilbert
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It's love that makes the world go round.
W. S. Gilbert
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
W. S. Gilbert
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Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens
W. S. Gilbert
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
W. S. Gilbert
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
W. S. Gilbert
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Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. Gilbert
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It's true I've got no shirts to wear It's true my butcher's bill is due It's true my prospects all look blue - But don't let that unsettle you.
W. S. Gilbert
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
W. S. Gilbert
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
W. S. Gilbert
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When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
W. S. Gilbert
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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
W. S. Gilbert
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
W. S. Gilbert
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If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
W. S. Gilbert
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A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass
W. S. Gilbert
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