I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as …

George Bernard Shaw
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit ✨ Misalliance preface (1914)
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