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# Why
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- Monsieur.
- Bonsoir.
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- Vous avez lá un succés certain.
- Merci.
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What do you expect me to do?
Kiss the carpenters?
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Arthur!
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Let's get him up.
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Come on, sir.
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Arthur, take some brandy.
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What happened? What happened?!
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Is Doctor Lynch in the house?
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Listen to this! Today's "Times".
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"'Princess Ida' will
probably run for a year...
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...keeping the Savoy treasury
agreeably replete all the while."
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"All London will flock to hear it."
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"So will our provincial,
American and continental visitors."
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"Copies of its words and music
will be sold by tens of thousands."
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"Everybody connected with it will have
a good time for at least twelve months."
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"So mote it be."
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- How splendid, Willie!
- Sugared words, Lucy.
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Listen.
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"The opera is above the level of all
other entertainments before the public."
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"Still, I cannot pronounce it
to be in any way...
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...an improvement upon its predecessors."
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"To me, words and music alike reveal...
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...symptoms of fatigue in their
respective composer and author."
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"Arthur Sullivan cannot write
other than in pleasing manner...
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...but several numbers in 'Princess Ida'
lack the freshness and spontaneity...
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...of 'The Pirates of Penzance',
'Patience, lolanthe'...
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...or 'The Sorcerer', his best operatic work."
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Oh! Is it?
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"Or 'HMS Pinafore', the most popular."
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"WS Gilbert abundantly proves
he is still the legitimate monarch...
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...of the realm of Topsy-Turvydom."
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Thank you very much(!)
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"But his incongruities are more
elaborately worked up than of yore...