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" If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. "
George Bernard Shaw
Never
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" If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote. "
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" Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. "
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" Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. "
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" Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. "
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" The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. "
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" If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it. "
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" Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. "
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" Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. "
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" Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. "
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" The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. "
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" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "
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" Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "
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" An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. "
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" The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. "
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" Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. "
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" I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. "
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" A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. "
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" The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! "
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