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  1. George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance

    Common people do not pray; they only beg.
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  2. George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance

    There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
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  3. George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance

    What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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  4. George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance

    The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
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