"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.“
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"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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