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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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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.
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Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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