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George Bernard Shaw

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?


— George Bernard Shaw


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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.


— George Bernard Shaw


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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.


— George Bernard Shaw


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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.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About 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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