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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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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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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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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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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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Things are seldom what they seem.
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On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
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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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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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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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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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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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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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