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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.   Shaw, George Bernard

 

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Source: Attributed to GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.Franklin P. Adams, FPA Book of Quotations, p. 883 .Archibald Henderson, in his third biography of Shaw, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, chapter 62, p. 845 , included this statement in a section of anecdotes. He had not included this in earlier biographies of 1911 and 1932.The anecdote apparently was first told in the 1930s, since it is one which appears in Lewis and Faye Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, & Stories, p. 555 . It was also used in Readers Digest, April 1940, p. 84. Sometimes heard waste it on the young.Dr. Stanley Weintraub, author and editor of books on Shaw, believes this is incorrectly attributed to Shaw and that it actually belongs to Oscar Wilde, since Shaw often took quotations from Wilde and inverted them for his own use. · This quote is tagged Uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation · Help your friends discover QB

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