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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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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If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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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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It's true I've got no shirts to wear It's true my butcher's bill is due It's true my prospects all look blue - But don't let that unsettle you.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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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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Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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