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George Bernard Shaw: Patriotism is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Patriotism is a...

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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-- George...

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George Bernard Shaw: A perpetual holiday...

George Bernard Shaw: A perpetual holiday...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Source: Quoted by Charles...

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George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

Better never than late.

Source: Responding to an offer by a producer to present one...

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George Bernard Shaw: Everything happens to...

George Bernard Shaw: Everything happens to...

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: England and America...

George Bernard Shaw: England and America...

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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George Bernard Shaw: It isn't mere...

George Bernard Shaw: It isn't mere...

It isn't mere convention. Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are...

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George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

Love is a gross exaggeration of the differences between one person and everybody else.

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George Bernard Shaw: The power of...

George Bernard Shaw: The power of...

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got...

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George Bernard Shaw: The only way...

George Bernard Shaw: The only way...

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good...

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George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

We are a nation of governesses.

Source: New Statesman (London, 12 April...

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NIHILIST, n. A...

NIHILIST, n. A...

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is...

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NON-COMBATANT, n. A...

NON-COMBATANT, n. A...

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
--...

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ONCE, adv. Enough....

ONCE, adv. Enough....

ONCE, adv. Enough.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce, (Jun...

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MORE, adj. The...

MORE, adj. The...

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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OUTDO, v.t. To...

OUTDO, v.t. To...

OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...

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PESSIMISM, n. A...

PESSIMISM, n. A...

PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist...

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PHILOSOPHY, n. A...

PHILOSOPHY, n. A...

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Source: The...

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PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible...

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible...

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his...

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PASSPORT, n. A...

PASSPORT, n. A...

PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him...

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PLAUDITS, n. Coins...

PLAUDITS, n. Coins...

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

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