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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 highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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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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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him
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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 whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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The harder I work the more I live.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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