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«How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
contradiction in terms, Englishman, hearsay
«If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.»
«A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.»
«My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
clients, respectably
«If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.»
«Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit»
«A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.»
«A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house : that is the true middle-class unit.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Family
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drinkers, middle class, moderate, unit
«What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.»
«An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.»
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