Sir William Robinson

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    “poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist—
    I don’t think she’d be missed—I’m sure she’d not be
    missed!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Like a wild stranger out of wizard-land
    He dwelt a little with us, and withdrew;
    Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew,
    Dark was the glass through which his fire eye shined.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)