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Man and Superman (1903)
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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Born:
July 26, 1856
Died:
November 2, 1950
(aged 94)
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