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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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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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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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!
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In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
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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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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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