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What is life but a series of inspired follies.
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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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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 more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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