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It's true I've got no shirts to wear It's true my butcher's bill is due It's true my prospects all look blue - But don't let that unsettle you.
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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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
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Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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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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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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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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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
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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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Life's a pudding full of plums.
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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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