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1  Eliza's beauty becomes murderous.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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2  She had become attached to you both.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  Eliza instantly becomes cool and elegant.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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4  Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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5  Don't mistake the one for the other if you wish to become a lady in a shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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6  I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  Her father, though formerly a dustman, and now fantastically disclassed, had become extremely popular in the smartest society by a social talent which triumphed over every prejudice and every disadvantage.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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9  They want too much for too little; and when the bargain is unreasonable beyond all bearing, the union becomes impossible: it ends in the weaker party being either discarded or borne as a cross, which is worse.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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10  When a bachelor interests, and dominates, and teaches, and becomes important to a spinster, as Higgins with Eliza, she always, if she has character enough to be capable of it, considers very seriously indeed whether she will play for becoming that bachelor's wife, especially if he is so little interested in marriage that a determined and devoted woman might capture him if she set herself resolutely to do it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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11  When a bachelor interests, and dominates, and teaches, and becomes important to a spinster, as Higgins with Eliza, she always, if she has character enough to be capable of it, considers very seriously indeed whether she will play for becoming that bachelor's wife, especially if he is so little interested in marriage that a determined and devoted woman might capture him if she set herself resolutely to do it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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