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  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "John Bull's Other Island" (1906)...
• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity, no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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• There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
  The other is to get it. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superma...
• Pardon him, Theodotus, he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
  -- George Bernard Shaw ...
• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe?
  Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right....