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Country Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
- An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
- Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...
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