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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.<br />

‘Patience’ (1881) act 1<br />

While this magnetic,<br />

Peripatetic<br />

Lover, he lived to learn,<br />

By no endeavour<br />

Can magnet ever<br />

Attract a Silver Churn!<br />

‘Patience’ (1881) act 2<br />

‘High diddle diddle’<br />

Will rank as an idyll,<br />

If I pronounce it chaste!<br />

‘Patience’ (1881) act 2<br />

Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy,<br />

Je-ne-sais-quoi young man!<br />

‘Patience’ (1881) act 2<br />

A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Galley,<br />

Foot-in-the-grave young man!<br />

‘Patience’ (1881) act 2<br />

I’m called Little Buttercup—dear Little Buttercup,<br />

Though I could never tell why.<br />

‘H. M. S. Pinafore’ (1878) act 1<br />

Though ‘Bother it’ I may<br />

Occasionally say,<br />

I never use a big, big D—<br />

‘H. M. S. Pinafore’ (1878) act 1<br />

And so do his sisters, and his cousins and his aunts!<br />

His sisters and his cousins,<br />

Whom he reckons up by dozens,<br />

And his aunts!<br />

‘H. M. S. Pinafore’ (1878) act 1<br />

When I was a lad I served a term<br />

As <strong>of</strong>fice boy to an Attorney’s firm.<br />

I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,<br />

And I polished up the handle <strong>of</strong> the big front door.<br />

I polished up that handle so carefullee<br />

That now I am the Ruler <strong>of</strong> the Queen’s Navee!<br />

‘H. M. S. Pinafore’ (1878) act 1<br />

I always voted at my party’s call,<br />

And I never thought <strong>of</strong> thinking for myself at all.

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