My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw in Answers to Nine Questions
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman (1903)
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw in Ceasar and Cleopatra
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