Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw exchange insults

People just don’t know how to exchange insults with style these days.

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George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill:

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend .... if you have one.

Churchill’s reply:

Can’t possibly attend your first night. Will attend the second night … if there is one

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