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The love of economy is the root of all virtue. (George Bernard Shaw)
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. View quote
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. View quote
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry. View quote
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. View quote
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. View quote
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. View quote
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. View quote
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. View quote
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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. (George Bernard Shaw)
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. View quote
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire. View quote
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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. View quote
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. View quote
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. View quote
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. View quote
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul. View quote
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. View quote
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. View quote
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. (George Bernard Shaw)
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. View quote
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. View quote
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. View quote
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. View quote
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