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Despite her failure, she persisted, and one day sent Shaw a card inviting him to tea. It read: “Lady X will be at home Thursday between 4 and 6” . . … - George Bernard Shaw
" "Despite her failure, she persisted, and one day sent Shaw a card inviting him to tea. It read: “Lady X will be at home Thursday between 4 and 6” . . . Shaw sent it back with the comment: “Mr. Bernard Shaw likewise.”
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About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
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De meerderheid heeft nooit gelijk. Nooit, zeg ik je! Het is een van die maatschappelijke leugens waar je als vrije en intelligente man wel tegen moet rebelleren. Wie zijn de mensen die de grootste groep van de bevolking vormen: de intelligenten of de dommen? Ik enk dat we het erover eens zijn dat het de dommen zijn, ongeacht waar op de wereld, het zijn de dommen die de overweldigende meerderheid vormen.
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