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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
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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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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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