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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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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On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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