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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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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On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
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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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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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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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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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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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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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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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