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He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
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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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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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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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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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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Things are seldom what they seem.
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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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