When I was a young man I observed than nine

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When I was a young man I observed than nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work - George Bernard Shaw

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Prolific Irish playwright

Born:26th July, 1856
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Died: 2nd October, 1950
Starsign: Leo

Author Keywords: Playwright, Irish, Prolific

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Ben Jonson, Marquis De Flers, Henry Reed, Florida Scott-Maxwell, George S Kaufman

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