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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'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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