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My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time—
To let the punishment fit the crime,
The punishment fit the crime.

— W. S. Gilbert The Mikado (1885)

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Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)

I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a schoolgirl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish glee.

When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.

The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

Man is a ribald—Man’s a rake,
Man is Nature’s sole mistake!

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