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" There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. "
George Bernard Shaw
Desire
Two
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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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" An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. "
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" I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. "
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" The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. "
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" If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it. "
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" Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. "
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" It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. "
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" Very few people can afford to be poor. "
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" If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. "
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" If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. "
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" She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. "
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" Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. "
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" I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. "
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You
Long
" The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. "
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" There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. "
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Man
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" An index is a great leveller. "
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" He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. "
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Does
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" Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. "
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" Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. "
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" Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! "
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Take
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" A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place. "
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" Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. "
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" The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. "
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Right
Wrong
" An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. "
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Sane
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" My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. "
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" Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. "
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" One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. "
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