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Better never than late.
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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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say, ‘Why not?
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
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