When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.

W. S. Gilbert
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  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By W. S. Gilbert
  1. Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

  2. Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.

  3. Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

  4. He did nothing in particular And did it very well.

  5. For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.

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