Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhat you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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Youth is wasted on the young.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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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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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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