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• 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....
• Life is no brief candle to me. I is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  George Bernard Shaw...
• 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...
• I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend.
  .. if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill...
• Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...