George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903)

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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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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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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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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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Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

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Mendoza: I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.
Tanner: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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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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The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

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DON JUAN: Stupidity has all the knowledge, and Imagination all the intelligence.

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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich—something for nothing.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the Polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued…Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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