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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert
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W. S. Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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