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• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
  -- Shaw...
• It is his life's work to state the obvious in terms of the scandalous.
  -- said of George Bernard Shaw...
• The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose. -- George Bernard Shaw
• A man's mother is his misfortune, his wife is his fault.
• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• 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...
• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
  ..It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman despise him....
• The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...