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Marry Ann and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
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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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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