George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Revenge
  • Hatred
  • Cowards