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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

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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing

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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