“ You are like all the clever men: you have more brains than is good for you. ”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). copy citation
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
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Source | Man and Superman |
Topic | good brains |
Date | 1903 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3328/3328-h/3328-h.htm |
Context
“And whilst I was in the act of framing my excuse to the lady, Life seized me and threw me into her arms as a sailor throws a scrap of fish into the mouth of a seabird.
THE STATUE. You might as well have gone without thinking such a lot about it, Juan. You are like all the clever men: you have more brains than is good for you.
THE DEVIL. And were you not the happier for the experience, Senor Don Juan?
DON JUAN. The happier, no: the wiser, yes. That moment introduced me for the first time to myself, and, through myself, to the world.”
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