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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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Things are seldom what they seem.
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A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
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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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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
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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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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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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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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
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Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!
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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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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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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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