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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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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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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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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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To be in hell is to drift to be in heaven is to steer.
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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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A great social reformer.
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