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"The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellows head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will."
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Man and SupermanTwo starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can — Man and Superman
"Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one."
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Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by Bernard Shaw in 1903 and premiered at the Court Theatre in London on 21 May 1905. The first production – like most subsequent ones – omitted a dream sequence, Don Juan in Hell, from the third act. That episode was first given at the Court in 1907. The play humorously illustrates the theories of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that humanity will e
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