QUOTES by George Bernard Shaw
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"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."
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"You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy"
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"A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows."
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"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
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"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you."
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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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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect"
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"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful."
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"If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
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"I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."
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"Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering"
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them"
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"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life"
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"I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop"
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
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"I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary"
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"Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability"
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"Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
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"You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world"
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
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