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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
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