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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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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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