We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw in Candida (1898)
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Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw in An Unsocial Socialist (1887)
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion (1916)
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