A self-righteous country soon forgets its righteousness and remembers only the self.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
Remark (1940s)
To the author, in Stephen Winsten, Days with Bernard Shaw, ch. 25 (1949)
Added on 19-Jan-15 | Last updated 19-Jan-15
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