"No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw."

-- Jacques Barzun

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“The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”

Source : "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.
“Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.”
“The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.”
“Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.”
“Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.”
“I'm a liberal arts junkie.”
“Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.”

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