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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

— George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer (1893)

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Getting Married (1908)

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Saint Joan (1923)

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havnt and dont.

The Apple Cart (1928)

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Misalliance (1910)

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