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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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