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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

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
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
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth

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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