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

— W. S. Gilbert The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

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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.

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

She may very well pass for forty three
In the dusk with the light behind her.

Trial by Jury (1875)

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