“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

—  George Bernard Shaw , Man and Superman

Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 37

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