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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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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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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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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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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
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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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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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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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