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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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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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Your father is a fool skin deep but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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Brains are not everything.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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