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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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