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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!
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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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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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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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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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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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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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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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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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.
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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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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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
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It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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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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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
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