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George Bernard Shaw

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.


— George Bernard Shaw


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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Very few people can afford to be poor.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Virtue is insufficient temptation.


— George Bernard Shaw


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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?


— George Bernard Shaw


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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

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Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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