George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic
Lived from: 1856 - 1950
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950
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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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