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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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