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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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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 every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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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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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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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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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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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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Things are seldom what they seem.
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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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It's love that makes the world go round.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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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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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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