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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing

A forest bird never wants a cage.

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