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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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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Marry Ann and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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All progress means war with society.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Property is organized robbery.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
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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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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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