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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live

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