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

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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 no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory

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

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