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George Bernard Shaw

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.


— George Bernard Shaw


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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?


— George Bernard Shaw


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After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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