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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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
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
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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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word

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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