“ The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). copy citation
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
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Source | Man and Superman |
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Date | 1903 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3328/3328-h/3328-h.htm |
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“Good Lord, my dear Ramsden, we are ashamed to walk, ashamed to ride in an omnibus, ashamed to hire a hansom instead of keeping a carriage, ashamed of keeping one horse instead of two and a groom-gardener instead of a coachman and footman. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. Why, you're ashamed to buy my book, ashamed to read it: the only thing you're not ashamed of is to judge me for it without having read it; and even that only means that you're ashamed to have heterodox opinions.”
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