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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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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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No good play is a success fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
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Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
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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.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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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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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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