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Twenty Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age…
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
- You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either.
- A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of…
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