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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

By W. S. Gilbert

In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting.

By W. S. Gilbert

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.

By W. S. Gilbert

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

By W. S. Gilbert

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

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Things are seldom what they seem.

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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

By W. S. Gilbert

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

By W. S. Gilbert

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

By W. S. Gilbert

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

By W. S. Gilbert

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

By W. S. Gilbert