"To the person with a toothache, even..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
“The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.”
“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
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“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”
“For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.”
“No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?”