Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.
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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.William Schwenck Gilbert
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.
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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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If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line As a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms And plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases Of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter Of a transendental kind.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
William Schwenck Gilbert
When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!
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