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It's love that makes the world go round.
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 Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!
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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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