Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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