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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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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
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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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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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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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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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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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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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If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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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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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
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