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Tarleton, in Misalliance The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972)Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmalion a member of the Caravan of the Curious, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)a naturalist, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)Anderson, in The Devil's Disciple The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971)

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Everybody's Political What's What? Ch. 42, Constable (1944).

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