“Some word that teems with hidden meaning, like "Basingstoke". It might recall me to my saner self. For, after all, I am only Mad Margaret! Daft Meg! Poor Meg! He! he! he!”

—  W. S. Gilbert

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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