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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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
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
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
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
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
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic

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