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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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It is not that I am so clever it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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