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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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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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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
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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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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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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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If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
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