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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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