George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Summary

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw,  Preface to Androcles and the Lion… (1912)

“ When Talleyrand said that a married man with a family is capable of anything, he meant anything evil; but an optimist may declare, with equal half truth, that a married man is capable of anything good; that marriage turns vagabonds into steady citizens; and that men and women will, for love of their mates and children, practise virtues that unattached individuals are incapable of. It is true that too much of this domestic virtue is self-denial, which is not a virtue at all ”
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