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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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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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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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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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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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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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No good play is a success fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
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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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Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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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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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens
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Life's a pudding full of plums.
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A policeman's lot is not a happy one
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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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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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