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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, No, he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish. And that's your chance, my boy.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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