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Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.

— Frank Harris Bernard Shaw (1931)

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Source: Bernard Shaw (1931) p. 191.
Work: Bernard Shaw, 1931
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