Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
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I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw in Major Barbara (1907)
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Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw in An Unsocial Socialist (1887)
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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