You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWe learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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 secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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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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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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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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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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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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