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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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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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