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• Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• There is only one sort of genuine Socialism, the democratic sort, by which I mean the organization of society for the benefit of the whole people.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. -- George Bernard Shaw
• I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw
• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship.
  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind....
• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship.
  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind....