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Inspirational Quotes by W. S. Gilbert
- When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody.
- There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
- Things are seldom what they seem.
- 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…
- He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
- It's love that makes the world go round.
- I am the very model of a modern major general
- A policeman's lot is not a happy one
- As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem,…
- He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
- Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
- Life's a pudding full of plums.
- I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
- I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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