George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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Music Critic
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Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856-1950)

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Born

July 26, 1856

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Died

November 2, 1950

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Birthplace

Dublin

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Nationality

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Spouse(s)

Charlotte Payne-Townshend
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Professional Background

music criticpoliticianplaywrightlinguistscreenwriter
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"Very few people can afford to be poor."
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"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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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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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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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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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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