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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

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