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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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 most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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