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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
Succeed
Will
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
May
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Government
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing
Desire
Expression
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty
Hurt
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
Men
Women
Vote
Want
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals
Friends
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Books
Censorship
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Man
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Man
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
Ignorance
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
World
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty
First
Sight