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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Henrik Ibsen

A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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: “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
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
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

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