What George Bernard Shaw thinks about optimism

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Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950); Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1925; author of Maxims for Revolutionists.

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1. c. 1906–1907

   Our readingDeclaring people born free is useless if you deny they are born good

   Their wordsIt is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good. Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself.

   ↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book