George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Ireland And The Irish
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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