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George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

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George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion Quotes

“In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

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

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.”

“Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.”

“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”