Quotation by

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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Understanding this quote AI Analysis

George Bernard Shaw is saying that qualities like glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and lasting love exist fully only in written ideas or ideals, not yet in real life. He suggests that humanity has not truly realized these values in practice, only in theory or imagination.

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