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George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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George Bernard Shaw is saying that men often have to act in harsh or unfair ways in order to maintain how others see them as respectable. This suggests that society’s idea of respectability can force men into behaving badly.

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