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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
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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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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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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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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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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When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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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 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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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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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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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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All bayonets are bad.
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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