“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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