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“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.” quote by George Bernard Shaw — Download Open image

“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.”

George Bernard Shaw

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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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