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Things are seldom what they seem.
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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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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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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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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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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