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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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Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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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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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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