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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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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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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 never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
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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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