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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

Henrik Ibsen

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

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