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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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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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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble and that’s killing things.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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