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.
- William Gilbert
Trust, Chance, Bound, Blow
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
- William Gilbert
Never, Hang, Most, Politely
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- William Gilbert
Politics, Always, Call, Party
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
- William Gilbert
Hidden, Sure, Reasons, Obtained
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
- William Gilbert
Morals, Methodist, He, Manners
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
- William Gilbert
Deserve, How, Idea, No Idea
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
- William Gilbert
Help, Inconceivable, Pride
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
- William Gilbert
Nothing, Very, Throughout, Peers
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
- William Gilbert
Think, Dirty, I Think, Beast
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- William Gilbert
Never, Always, Call, Voted
Man is nature's sole mistake.
- William Gilbert
Nature, Man, Mistake, Sole
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- William Gilbert
Everyone, Somebody, Then, Anybody
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