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One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
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The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
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After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon.
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The Sun, whose rays Are all ablaze With ever-living glory, Does not deny His majesty — He scorns to tell a story!
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I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical.
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Her taste exact For faultless fact Amounts to a disease.
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About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news —With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
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I've got a little list — I've got a little list... I've got him on the list. They never would be missed — they never would be missed!
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How quaint the ways of paradox At common sense she gaily mocks.
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A Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved!
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RUTH:
A paradox?
KING:
A paradox! A most ingenious paradox! We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks, But none to beat this paradox!
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Of what there is no manner of doubt, No probable, possible, shadow of doubt, No possible doubt whatever.
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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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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space Roll on! What though I'm in a sorry case? What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Marcus Garvey
Arthur Sullivan
Born:
May 13, 1842
Died:
November 22, 1900
(aged 58)
Bio:
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.
Known for:
The Mikado
The Pirates of Penzance
H.M.S. Pinafore
Iolanthe
The Gondoliers
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