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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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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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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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