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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret 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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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

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