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Ethics
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Evil
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Exaggeration
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Example
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Experience
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-George Bernard Shaw
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
-George Bernard Shaw
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Faith
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Family
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He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
-George Bernard Shaw
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Fashion
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Father
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
-George Bernard Shaw
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Fellowship
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Fight, Fighting
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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Flattery
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Food
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Fools, Foolishness
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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Forgiveness
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
-George Bernard Shaw
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Friends
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Future, The
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Gambling (Gaming)
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Gardens
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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Generations
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw