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I am the very model of a modern major general
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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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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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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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
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I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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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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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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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 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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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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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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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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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
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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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