“Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!”

The tangled Skein.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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