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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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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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