Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Better never than late.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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