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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.

Henrik Ibsen

A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself

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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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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