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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

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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

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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