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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save 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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

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