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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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