More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.[1]
  2. Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
  3. Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
  4. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
  5. Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
  6. What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
  7. Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
  8. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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