You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYou have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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