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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing.
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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Morality is not respectability.
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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
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