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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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W. S. Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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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.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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