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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing»
«Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.»
«At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world»
«Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.»
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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About:
Generations,
Hope,
Life
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Keywords:
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generations,
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make it,
onto,
sort,
sort of,
splendid,
torch,
torches
«Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.»
«Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.»
«Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
bad,
instead,
in jokes,
joke,
joked,
jokes,
less,
make it,
suppose,
supposes,
take a joke,
The Less
«The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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About:
Reason
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Keywords:
enough,
enslaves,
her,
listens,
lost,
master,
minds,
reason,
strong,
The Man,
The Man Who
«Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.»