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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
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 doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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