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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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Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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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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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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