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This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think...
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we...
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early...
There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply...
We're from Madeira, but perfectly respectable, so far.
Source: You Never Can Tell,...
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing,...
They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat till she came to so sudden that she...
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the...
What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids...
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26...
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true...
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
Source: Heartbreak...
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of...
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to...
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Source: Man and Superman, ...