Sir William Keith

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    “While this magnetic,
    Peripatetic
    Lover he lived to learn,
    By no endeavor
    Can a magnet ever
    Attract a Silver Churn!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
    —Herbert, Sir Beerbohm (1853–1917)

    “I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)