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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fear Friendship Restriction
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
HENRIK IBSEN

Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right

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