Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPatriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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 pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got 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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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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