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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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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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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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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
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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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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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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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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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