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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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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one and that one is his cowardice
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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Why not give Christianity a trial?
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
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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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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.
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The harder I work the more I live.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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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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