If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. -George Bernard Shaw

 

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.


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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. -George Bernard Shaw
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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