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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

Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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, 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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society 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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst

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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