Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw