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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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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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