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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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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister and that is her mother.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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