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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

— George Bernard Shaw

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  1. Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
  2. Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
  3. Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
  4. The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
  5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progre…
  6. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.
  7. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
  8. ...society, with all its prisons and bayonets and whips and ostracisms and starvations, is powerless in the face of the Anarchist who is pr…

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  • humor
  • gender
  • satire
  • stereotypes
  • aging

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