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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

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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Friendship Lying Oneself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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