Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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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.
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