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"You swear a great deal too much. I dont mind your damning and blasting, and what the devil and where
the devil and who the devil—" |
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The
difficulty is to find them to do." |
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| "I dont need less than a deserving man: I need more." |
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"If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him
when he’s sober; and then it makes him low-spirited." |
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"No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the
problem of what is to be done with her afterwards." |
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"I feel exactly as I felt before my first battle. It’s the
first time that frightens." |
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At the beginning of the play, Pickering
and Higgins are old friends and
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Eliza Doolittle says she intends to marry
Freddy. |
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The professor’s vocation and avocation
are the same. |
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All the women featured in the story are
against Higgins’ plan. |
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Eliza is delighted with the idea of learning
to behave like a duchess. |
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The professor succeeds in winning his
bet, although Eliza is very slow to learn. |
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When the experiment is over, Pickering
wants to let Eliza go and find another
subject for his experiments. |
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According to Shaw, if the professor had
had a different sort of mother, he would
have been more likely to fall in love with
Eliza. |
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Alfred Doolittle succeeds in extorting ten
pounds from the professor. |
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Higgins says he can "take a human being
and turn her into a quite different human
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Eliza says, "Now you’ve made a lady of
me I’m |
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not fit to sell anything
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