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George Bernard Shaw

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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Hell is full of musical amateurs.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination


— George Bernard Shaw


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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.


— George Bernard Shaw


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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.


— George Bernard Shaw


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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.


— 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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