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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
Gambling
George Bernard Shaw

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Arts and Artists
George Bernard Shaw

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hatred
George Bernard Shaw

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
Music
George Bernard Shaw

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Humankind
George Bernard Shaw

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Perfection
George Bernard Shaw

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
Men and Women
George Bernard Shaw

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Kings
George Bernard Shaw

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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Servants
George Bernard Shaw

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Exaggeration
George Bernard Shaw

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Achievement
George Bernard Shaw

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage
George Bernard Shaw

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Ability
George Bernard Shaw

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Experience
George Bernard Shaw

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Experts
George Bernard Shaw

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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Questions
George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Consequences
George Bernard Shaw

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice
George Bernard Shaw

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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Conversation
George Bernard Shaw

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Gardening and Gardens
George Bernard Shaw

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Uncategorised
George Bernard Shaw

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Crime and Criminals
George Bernard Shaw

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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Debt
George Bernard Shaw

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Joy
George Bernard Shaw

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun