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|quote=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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Source

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

{{cite web|title=Shaw, George Bernard|work=The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations|editor-first=W. F.|editor-last=Bynum|editor2-first=Roy|editor2-last=Porter|publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=2 December 2009|year=2006|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t218.e1139}}