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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
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
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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