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George Bernard Shaw

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.


— George Bernard Shaw


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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.


— George Bernard Shaw


#cruelty #delicious #find #hurt #only

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.


— George Bernard Shaw


#find #get #look #make #people

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

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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