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The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

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The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion Quotes

“The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.”

“The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.”

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

“I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.”

“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”

“Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.”

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

“The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.”

“A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.”

“There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.”

“Life is too short for men to take it seriously.”