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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
W. S. Gilbert
Born: November 18, 1836
Died: May 29, 1911 (aged 74)
Bio: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S.
Known for:
- The Mikado
- The Pirate Movie
- The Pirates of Penzance
- The Gentlemen of Titipu
- Gilbert and Sullivan: The Very Models
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