Act V
Higgins: 'The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls.'
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From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Higgins's defining self-portrait as a man who treats everyone the same regardless of class, combined with his bachelor disposition and oedipal attachment to his mother.
Act II
Higgins on women: 'I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.'
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