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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage

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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