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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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