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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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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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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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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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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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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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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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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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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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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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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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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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