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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

Right

Wishes

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

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Money

Evil

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience

Men

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Life

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw

Man

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.