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iWinkels.be snel gemakkelijk de juiste winkel of winkels vinden
 
Quotations by author » George Bernard Shaw
Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.
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The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.
Government
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
CensorshipProgress
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Rules
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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The harder I work the more I live.
LivingWork
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak.
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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak.
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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
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