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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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 is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

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