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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

W. S. Gilbert

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W. S. Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
Dramatist
Illustrator
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
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London
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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Valor
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