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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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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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Morality is not respectability.
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
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