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W.S. Gilbert

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, opening lines to the famous duet between Buttercup and the Captain in the “Gilbert and Sullivan” operetta H.M.S. Pinafore (1878; Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer).

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