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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish dramatist & socialist [more author details]

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.: George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.: George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.: George Bernard Shaw
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.: George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.: George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.: George Bernard Shaw
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.: George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.: George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.: George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.: George Bernard Shaw
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.: George Bernard Shaw
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.: George Bernard Shaw
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.: George Bernard Shaw

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