Sir William Nicholson

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    “I love my fellow creatures—I do all the good I can—
    Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
    The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Utopia’s quite another land;
    In her enterprising movements,
    She is England—with improvements,”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)