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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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 surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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