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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

~George Bernard Shaw

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Begin Great Truths

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

~George Bernard Shaw

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General consultant to mankind.

~George Bernard Shaw

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Cannot Every Explain Hand Itself Life Miracle Miracles Phenomena Sense Surround Us We Cannot

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

~George Bernard Shaw

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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Across Allow Been Better Deer Done Land Large Large Part Leave Live Off Own Part People Practically Reason Scotland Sea Shoot Snow Take Than Them Think Throw Turn Women I Think I Can

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

~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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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

~George Bernard Shaw

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26th, 1856

Died: November 2nd, 1950

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