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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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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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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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