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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
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