“Oh, philosophers may sing
Of the troubles of a King,
But of pleasures there are many and of worries there are none;
And the culminating pleasure
That we treasure beyond measure
Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.”

—  W. S. Gilbert

The Gondoliers (1889)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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