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, Skim milk masquerades as cream.'
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Oh, dont the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isnt your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at.William Schwenck Gilbert
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety.
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I've got a little list of society offenders who might well be underground and who never would be missed.
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It's a song of a merry man, moping mum, whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, as he sighed for the love of a lady.
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When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!
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When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorneys firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queens Navee .... Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queens Navee.
William Schwenck Gilbert
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