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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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

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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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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