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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.

Henrik Ibsen

The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society

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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