Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENMoney may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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