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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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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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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
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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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Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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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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