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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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 privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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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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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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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
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If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
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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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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S. Pinafore, in the words of W. S. Gilbert: Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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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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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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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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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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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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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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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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