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Do not waste your time on Social Questions.  What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.  -  George Bernard Shaw

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.  -  George Bernard Shaw

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone else can be of another person.  -  George … Continue reading

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do … Continue reading

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Those who can do, those who can’t teach.  -  George Bernard Shaw

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one. (Written to Winston Churchill – see reply)  -  George Bernard Shaw

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.  – George Bernard Shaw

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.  – George Bernard Shaw

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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.  -  George Bernard Shaw

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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?  -  George Bernard Shaw

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