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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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All progress means war with society.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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