George Bernard Shaw Quotes

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  

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• If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Food
  • English
  • Survive