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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

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