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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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— George Bernard Shaw, from Man and Superman

Source

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (1903), Act 2, p.50.

Bynum, W. F.; Porter, Roy, eds. (2006). "Shaw, George Bernard". The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2009.