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From Quotes by W. S. Gilbert
- He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
- Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
- 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…
- In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from…
- 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…
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