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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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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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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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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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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Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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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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