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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Greatest Greatest Number Number Offend People Secret Success Success Is

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: About Advice Anything He Knows Pope Sex Should Take Why

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Because Marriage Maximum Opportunity Popular Temptation

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Dread Liberty Means Men Most Responsibility Why

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Children Crime Thing Waste Wonderful Wonderful Thing Youth

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Abide Achieved Beauty Glory Humanity Knowledge Love Only Paper Truth Virtue

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Anything He History Learn Man Never Right Said

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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Caesar Common Common Sense Courage Good Good Taste Great Man Meaning Moral Moral Courage Originality Sense Taste Thereby Without

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Dangerous Going Happen Matter Men Old Old Men Them World

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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Body Church England God Neither Nor Old Old Testament Parts Passions Person Testament Therefore

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26th, 1856

Died: November 2nd, 1950

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