tastes may not be the same.
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Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
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yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols;
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the democracy, of idolaters.
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idols of flesh and blood.
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idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one.
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When the wooden idol does not answer the peasant's prayer, he beats it:
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He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.
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The Court is the servant's hall of the sovereign.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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political problem remains unsolved.
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monarchies with public functionaries.
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Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.
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Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.
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Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.
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with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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equally if they murder him.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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Equality is fundamental in every department of social organization.
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