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The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

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The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more Quotes

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

“Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.”

“Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”

“If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”

“At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.”

“God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.”