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«The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.»
«The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
American Constitution, chopping, documents, sternest, think out
«The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.»
«Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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esteems, in proportion to, rich in, voracity
«Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
compulsion, compulsory, latitude, latitudes
«I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.»
«My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.»
«Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.»
«Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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kennel, kennels, Ladies and, lady friend
«To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.»
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