“I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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