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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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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
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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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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
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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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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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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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I am the very model of a modern major general
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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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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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
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