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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!
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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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
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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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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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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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A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass
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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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Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
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Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
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He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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A policeman's lot is not a happy one
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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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I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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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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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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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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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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