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George Bernard Shaw: It would positively...

George Bernard Shaw: It would positively...

It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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George Bernard Shaw: The golden rule...

George Bernard Shaw: The golden rule...

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Source: Man and Superman,...

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George Bernard Shaw: Peace is not...

George Bernard Shaw: Peace is not...

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Source: Heartbreak...

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George Bernard Shaw: Property is organised...

George Bernard Shaw: Property is organised...

Property is organised robbery.

Source: Major Barbara, Preface
-- George Bernard...

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George Bernard Shaw: Reasonable people adapt...

George Bernard Shaw: Reasonable people adapt...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All...

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George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy,...

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William Shakespeare: He wants nothing...

William Shakespeare: He wants nothing...

He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Society is no...

William Shakespeare: Society is no...

Society is no comfort
To one not sociable.


Source: Cymbeline, IV:2
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: I am as...

William Shakespeare: I am as...

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Source: Henry IV, Pt II, I. ii....

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William Shakespeare: The whining schoolboy,...

William Shakespeare: The whining schoolboy,...

The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to...

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William Shakespeare: Here are a...

William Shakespeare: Here are a...

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper!


Source: The...

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George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Source: Quoted in: Hesketh...

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George Bernard Shaw: Crude classifications and...

George Bernard Shaw: Crude classifications and...

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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George Bernard Shaw: Custom will reconcile...

George Bernard Shaw: Custom will reconcile...

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Bernard Shaw: Give a man...

George Bernard Shaw: Give a man...

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or...

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George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness...

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George Bernard Shaw: Dying is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Dying is a...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid...

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George Bernard Shaw: He knows nothing;...

George Bernard Shaw: He knows nothing;...

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political...

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George Bernard Shaw: I showed my...

George Bernard Shaw: I showed my...

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly...

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George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.

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