We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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