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.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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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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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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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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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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