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Brains are not everything.
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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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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Fear is choosing the safe course
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.
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