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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.”

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from peo ...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror ...

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have bef ...

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

“He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or mor ...

“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect ...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without produ ...

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o ...

“A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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