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It's love that makes the world go round.
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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A policeman's lot is not a happy one
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Utopia's quite another land;
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Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
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Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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I often think it's comical
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
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All bayonets are bad.
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I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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