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professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. - George Bernard Shaw
" "professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.
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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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