“I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

The Serpent, in Pt I : In the Beginning
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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