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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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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past
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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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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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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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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
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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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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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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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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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