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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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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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It's true I've got no shirts to wear It's true my butcher's bill is due It's true my prospects all look blue - But don't let that unsettle you.
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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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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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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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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
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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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I am the very model of a modern major general
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When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
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He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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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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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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