Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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But that was how it was in a workaday Britain generally addicted to merit, rather than one increasingly enslaved to notions of entitlement. In the deepest part of themselves, all classes now are devoted to leisure, as if proper and difficult occupation has become one of the enemies of modern selfhood. The secret of being miserable, ... is to have leisure to bother whether you are happy or not.George Bernard Shaw
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
George Bernard Shaw
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
George Bernard Shaw
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing character, conduct, and capacity are everything. . .
George Bernard Shaw
I never expect a soldier to think.
George Bernard Shaw
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