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Morality is not respectability.
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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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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Youth is just wasted on young people.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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