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A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass
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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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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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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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
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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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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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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