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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

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life

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