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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

George Bernard Shaw

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

George Bernard Shaw

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw

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