He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.George Bernard Shaw
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage.
George Bernard Shaw
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.
George Bernard Shaw
Dying is a troublesome business there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw
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