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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
  2. I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  3. Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and …
  4. An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
  5. Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
  6. You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
  7. Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.
  8. The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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