George Bernard Shaw: Man

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“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.”

George Bernard Shaw The Doctor's Dilemma

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=aniaAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+who+is+occupied+in+doing+a+very+difficult+thing+and+doing+it+very+well+ever+loses+his+self-respect%22&pg=PR22#v=onepage <br class="br">1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) <br class="br">Variant: No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”

George Bernard Shaw

"The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review, LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443, reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79-86
1890s

“You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.”

George Bernard Shaw

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 17
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