I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't helpit. I was born sneering.
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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list, I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed, who never would be missed!
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own.
Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved!
In enterprise of martial kind When there was any fighting, He led his reg'ment from behind He found it less exciting.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General; I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
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