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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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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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Why not give Christianity a trial?
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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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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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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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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