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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2834/">Quotes by <em>Gilbert, W. S.</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured."

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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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"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."

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"Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved."

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"Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion."

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"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."

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"In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting."

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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

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"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it."

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