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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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