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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

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
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
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
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
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
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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

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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