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Preface to Major Barbara

Also known as Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics

A work by George Bernard Shaw

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korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Imprisoning someone for years is a deliberate act of cruelty (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Society should give everyone enough to live well on, then see that they earn it (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Money is the most important thing in the world, standing for health, strength and honor (opens korrents.com)1

  4. What the nation needs most is not better morals but simply enough money (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The evil reformers should attack is poverty, not sin, drink or ignorance (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Treating some money as tainted and other money as clean is a superstition (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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