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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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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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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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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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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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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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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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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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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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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
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