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On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
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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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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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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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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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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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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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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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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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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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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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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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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