70 ordspråk av William S. Gilbert
William S. Gilbert
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
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In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He found it less exciting.
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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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It revolts me but I do it!
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Now that's the kind of King for me --
He wished all men as rich as he,
So to the top of every tree
Promoted everybody!
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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,
When you've nothing whatever to grumble at?
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On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
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On a tree by a river a little tomtit / Sang `Willow, titwillow, titwillow.'
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