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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

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Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

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You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

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The king's name is a tower of strength.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Kings Quotes , Writing Quotes

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

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