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A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

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?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time

A friend married is a friend lost.

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