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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 472
AUTHOR: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
QUOTATION: Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
ATTRIBUTION: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Caesar and Cleopatra, act III, in Selected Plays with Prefaces, vol. 3, p. 418 (1948). Apollodorus is speaking to Cleopatra.
SUBJECTS: Duty
 


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