A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Vacation Time off Too much of a good thing

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Children's Happiness A Treatise on Parents and Children

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

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

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Author

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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