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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship

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