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“A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.” quote by George Bernard Shaw — Download Open image

“A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.”

George Bernard Shaw

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows…

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