Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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