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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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