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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" -
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Top 5 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
"Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not."
Top 5 quotes from Beauty
"Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence."
"Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy."
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
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