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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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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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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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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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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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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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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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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
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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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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
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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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I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
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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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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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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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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
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