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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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