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Oh, don’t the days seem lank and long, / When all goes right and nothing goes wrong / And isn't your life extremely flat / With nothing whatever to grumble at!
You must stir it and stump it, / And blow your own trumpet, / Or trust me, you haven’t a chance.
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Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
NO ONE CAN HAVE A HIGHER OPINION OF HIM THAN I HAVE, AND I THINK HE’S A DIRTY LITTLE BEAST.

She may very well pass for forty-three

In the dusk with a light behind her!

Man is Nature’s sole mistake!

Princess Ida (1884) act 2

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter

Isn’t generally heard, and if it is it doesn’t matter.

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When constabulary duty’s to be done,

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.

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I’m very good at integral and differential calculus,

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;

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It is, it is a glorious thing

To be a Pirate King.

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W. S. Gilbert was born in London and had a diverse career, practicing as a lawyer and later as a writer. His worldwide fame came from his partnership with Arthur Sullivan, which lasted for over twenty years. Gilbert was the principal lyricist and librettist, creating ingenious stories, eccentric characters, and dialogues filled with wit and irony. His comic operas satirized Victorian society, politics, and the social conventions of his time. In addition to his collaborations with Sullivan, Gilbert also wrote plays, short stories, and poems. His work 'The Bab Ballads' is a collection of short, rhyming poems that served as the basis for many of his operas. Gilbert was knighted (Knight Bachelor) in 1907.