Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. - George Bernard Shaw

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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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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Alternative Names: Bernard Shaw G.B. Shaw G. Bernard Shaw
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"Хиггинс: Она сегодня придет к вам в гости.
Миссис Хиггинс: Не помню, когда я ее приглашала.
Хиггинс: Вы и не приглашали. Я ее пригласил. Если б вы ее знали, вы бы ее ни за что не пригласили.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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