Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYour friends are all the dullest dogs.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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