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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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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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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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