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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Youth is just wasted on young people.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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