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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

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory

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