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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
         

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.


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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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