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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
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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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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Most people do not pray they only beg.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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