"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."

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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."

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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

Shaw, George Bernard on education   

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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

Shaw, George Bernard on duty
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"Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

Shaw, George Bernard on liberty
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

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"We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?"

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"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it."

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"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

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"Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen."

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

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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."

Shaw, George Bernard on thoughts and thinking
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

Shaw, George Bernard on tragedies
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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."

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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

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