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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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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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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling And listen to the merry village chime.
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
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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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