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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
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
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life

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