It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious. (George Bernard Shaw)

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious.

George Bernard Shaw

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