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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.
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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
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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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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
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If one will only take the precaution to go in long enough after it commences and to come out long before it is over you will not find it wearisome.
Of Gounod's La Rédemption
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The question of who are the best people to take charge of children is a very difficult one; but it is quite certain that the parents are the very worst.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
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The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Liza: My aunt died of influenza: so they said … But it's my belief (as how) they done the old woman in.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on [Charles] Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel, Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Charles Stuart Calverley
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Born:
July 26, 1856
Died:
November 2, 1950
(aged 94)
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George Bernard Shaw was a Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950.
Known for:
Pygmalion (1913)
Man and Superman (1903)
Major Barbara (1905)
Arms and the Man (1906)
Saint Joan (1924)
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