The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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George Bernard ShawMrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Act II
About George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright and critic, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. (1856-1950)
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