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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

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young

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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