It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

George Bernard Shaw
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More Quotes By George Bernard Shaw
  1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

  2. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

  3. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  4. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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