A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. — George Bernard Shaw · Skopia

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

1910

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.

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