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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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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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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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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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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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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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