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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
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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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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All progress means war with society.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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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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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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