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«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse»
«Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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over again, splendid, suffered, troublesome, warfare, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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flatteries, flattering, flatters, flattery, seen
«If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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conclusion, economists, end to end, laid, reach
«If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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cold-blooded, forgiven, in cold blood, maiming, maims
«In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Angels
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in particular
«Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Revolution
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lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, revolutions, shifted, shoulder
«Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
amateurs, brandies, brandy, damned, musical, The Damned
«Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.»
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