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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
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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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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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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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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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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