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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

Henrik Ibsen

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

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