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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow and the sooner it is over, the better.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Most of the money given by rich people in charity is made up of conscience money, ransom, political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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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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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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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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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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