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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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