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1  That's her own business, not yours, Mr. Higgins.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  If I'm to be in this business I shall feel responsible for that girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
3  He is too concerned with the business he has come on to notice Mrs. Higgins.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
4  Besides, the business was in some mysterious way beginning to take care of itself.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  Yes: that's what drives me mad: the silly people don't know their own silly business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
6  They came to the conclusion that their own way was the best, and that they had really a remarkable talent for business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
7  Well, when I've done with her, we can throw her back into the gutter; and then it will be her own business again; so that's all right.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  Freddy backed up Eliza in her obstinate refusal to believe that they could save money by engaging a bookkeeper with some knowledge of the business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
9  There were even classes at the London School of Economics, and a humble personal appeal to the director of that institution to recommend a course bearing on the flower business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
10  But when it comes to business, to the life that she really leads as distinguished from the life of dreams and fancies, she likes Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she does not like Higgins and Mr. Doolittle.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
11  Freddy's power of stating in Latin that Balbus built a wall and that Gaul was divided into three parts did not carry with it the slightest knowledge of accounts or business: Colonel Pickering had to explain to him what a cheque book and a bank account meant.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V