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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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Most people do not pray they only beg.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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This souls'prison we call England.
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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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