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W. S. Gilbert has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
• My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
• When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody.
• No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language…
• If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the…
• Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
• There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
• Man is nature's sole mistake.
• Things are seldom what they seem.

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