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Life's a pudding full of plums.
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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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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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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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 shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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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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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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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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