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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death. View quote
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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. View quote
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. View quote
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with. View quote
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it. View quote
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. View quote
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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal. View quote
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it. View quote
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death. View quote
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion. (George Bernard Shaw)
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections. View quote
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? View quote
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow. View quote
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God is on the side of the big battalions. View quote
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. View quote
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. View quote
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I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. View quote
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. View quote
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. View quote
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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. (George Bernard Shaw)
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. View quote
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. View quote
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. View quote
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. View quote
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